Is it me or is private image hosting expensive

Just noticed that private image hosting on docker hub costs 7USD for the first 5 containers per month. As a single project for a client usually contais a few repo’s with dockerfiles (some of them are really small repos and tiny in size).

So a few projects from clients adds up pretty quick in costs per month. So, is it just me, or is docker hub expensive for a freelancer?

Despite it's size and complexity as an application gitlab omnibus or gitlab docker images are super easy to stand up and keep running. Spend a day or two getting it configured for your use and backed up to a s3 bucket and it will run with very little maintenance.

Have you looked at creating teams in a single Docker account and organising the repos accordingly? Last time I worked with teams it was very basic and setting permissions was not very intuitive but maybe it’s worth a shot if the pricing for larger plans is better than for multiple smaller ones.

Even though it is particularly powerful with Codefresh pipelines, it can still act as a generic Docker registry that you can use externally. Codefresh runs on the cloud, so you only need to create a free account and you are good to go. There is nothing to install in order to use the registry.

[Docker](http://www.docker.io) is an open-source project to easily create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop can run at scale, in production, on VMs, bare metal, OpenStack clusters, public clouds and more.